The Canadian Champion Female Turf Horse is a Canadian

Canada

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 Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 horse racing

Horse racing

Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...

 honor that is part of the Sovereign Award

Sovereign Award

The Sovereign Award is given annually since 1975 by the Jockey Club of Canada to the outstanding horses and people in Canadian Thoroughbred racing.The most prestigious award for horses is Sovereign Horse of the Year....

s program awarded annually to the top female Thoroughbred horse competing in Canada in races on turf

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. Created in 1975, by the Jockey Club of Canada

Jockey Club of Canada

The Jockey Club of Canada was formed in 1973 to oversee thoroughbred horse racing in Canada. Based in Toronto, Ontario, the club is responsible for the annual Sovereign Awards program and the Canadian Graded Stakes Committee.Founding members:...

 as a single award for Champion Turf Horse, it was first won by the filly

Filly

A filly is a young female horse too young to be called a mare. There are several specific definitions in use.*In most cases filly is a female horse under the age of four years old....

 Victorian Queen. In 1995, it was split into male and female categories.

Champion Female Turf Horses:

• 1995 : Bold Ruritana
  Bold Ruritana
  Bold Ruritana Bold Ruritana Bold Ruritana (foaled 1990 in Ontario is a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion Filly racehorse. She was bred and raced by Minshall Farms, the successful horse farm at Hillsburgh, Ontario owned and managed by trainer Barbara Minshall and her husband, Aubrey....
  
  
• 1996 : Windsharp
• 1997 : Woolloomooloo
• 1998 : Colorful Vices
• 1999 : Free Vacation
• 2000 : Heliotrope
• 2001 : Sweetest Thing
• 2002 : Chopinina
• 2003 : Inish Glora
  Inish Glora
  Inish Glora is a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion Filly racehorse. She was sired by the Canadian Champion 2-Yr-Old-Colt, Regal Classic, a grandson of Northern Dancer...
  
  
• 2004 : Inish Glora
  Inish Glora
  Inish Glora is a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion Filly racehorse. She was sired by the Canadian Champion 2-Yr-Old-Colt, Regal Classic, a grandson of Northern Dancer...
  
  
• 2005 : Ambitious Cat
• 2006 : Arravale
  Arravale
  Arravale is an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse in Canada. Racing at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack, at age 2 Arravale won two of her first three starts....
  
  
• 2007 : Sealy Hill
  Sealy Hill
  Sealy Hill is a Canadian Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. Owned and bred by Canadian businessman Eugene Melnyk and his wife, Laura, Sealy Hill was named for a village in the Melnyk's adopted home, Barbados. She was sired by 2001 American Horse of the Year, Point Given...
  
  
• 2008 : Callwood Dancer
• 2009 : Points of Grace